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This is a selected list of video game system emulators . For information about emulating specific systems, including those not covered by the emulators in this list, see the respective article for each system.
Arcade
An arcade emulator is a program that emulates one or more arcade games on a different computer , such as a PC . The first known arcade emulation available publicly was the Williams Digital Arcade series from Digital Eclipse Software , released for the Macintosh in 1994. This series featured the Williams Electronics ' arcade classics Joust ,[ 1] Defender and Robotron: 2084 . In 1995, it was repackaged and expanded upon as Williams Arcade Classics for the PC.[ 2] DASArcade (written by David Alan Spicer) was arguably the first PC-based multiple arcade game emulator. This was distinct from Digital Eclipse's release in that only one program was required to emulate more than one arcade game, rather than one program per game. The first version of DASArcade was released later in 1995 and emulated a few titles including Pac-Man and Frogger (two years before MAME which now dominates arcade emulation). DASArcade evolved into Sparcade which emulates over 70 games.[ 3]
A virtual arcade is an extension of an arcade game emulator. With some setup, the player can view all the ROMs supported by the virtual arcade as actual arcade machines . The most commonly used emulator and virtual arcade software is MAME and 3D Arcade. Most common Virtual Arcades can not play more than one ROM at a time which makes it near impossible to play a game that requires the player to run two ROMs at once. Most virtual arcades also allow you to add new games, or customize the arcade.
Arcade System Emulators
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
DEmul
0.582 WIP
October 23, 2013
Dreamcast , Atomiswave , Naomi , Naomi 2 , Hikaru , Model 3 , Sega Saturn
Windows
Freeware
[1]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
OS X
BSD
[2]
Dolphin
4.0.2
November 30, 2013
GameCube , Triforce , Wii
Windows , OS X , Linux , Android [ 4]
GPL v2
[3] GitHub [4] [5]
FB Alpha
0.2.97.35
March 7, 2015
Various arcade systems
Cross-platform
FB Alpha License - non-commercial usage clause
[6]
Kawaks[ 5]
1.63
January 14, 2013
CP System , CP System II , Neo Geo MVS
Windows
Freeware
[7]
MAME
0.157
December 31, 2014
Various arcade systems
Cross-platform
MAME License - non-commercial usage clause
[8]
Nebula
2.25b
February 18, 2007
CP System II , Neo Geo MVS , PGM ,
Windows
Freeware
[9]
Raine
0.64.2
January 7, 2015
Various arcade systems
Cross-platform
Source available, redistribution without modifications.
[10]
Supermodel 3
0.2a
September 24, 2011
Sega Model 3
Windows , OS X
GPL
[11]
Arcadeflex
0.36.1
March 20, 2014
Various Arcade systems
Java , Cross-platform
Freeware , Open Source
[12] ,GitHub
Atari
Atari 2600
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
Ataroid
1.0.4
2011
Atari 2600
Android
?
Unknown
EMU7800[ 6]
1.7
June 1, 2014
Atari 2600 , Atari 7800
Windows
GPL
SourceForge
javatari
3.30
March 11, 2013
Atari 2600
Java based, multiplatform
GPL
[13]
PC Atari Emulator
2.6
March 16, 2002
Atari 2600
Windows , DOS
GPL
[14]
Stella
4.5
January 1, 2015
Atari 2600
AmigaOS , Windows , Mac OS , Linux , MorphOS , Windows Mobile , Dreamcast , GP2X , Nintendo DS , Wii
GPLv2
SourceForge
z26[ 7]
3.02.01
June 13, 2011
Atari 2600
DOS , Windows , Mac OS , Linux
GPLv2
[15]
Atari 5200
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
Atari800[ 8]
3.1.0
August 4, 2014
Atari 5200 , various Atari 8-bit computers
Cross-platform
GPL
SourceForge
Altirra
2.60
March 21, 2015
Atari 5200 , various Atari 8-bit computers
Windows
GPL
[16]
Atari++
1.73
February 24, 2014
Atari 5200 , various Atari 8-bit computers
Cross-platform
GPL
[17]
Jum52
1.1
March 2, 2010
Atari 5200
Cross-platform
Freeware
[18]
kat5200
0.6.2
June 28, 2009
Atari 5200 , various Atari 8-bit computers
Windows
GPL
[19]
Rainbow
2.2
August 25, 2012
Atari 5200 , various Atari 8-bit computers
Windows , Mac OS , OS X
Freeware
[20]
Atari 7800
Atari Lynx
Atari Jaguar
Nintendo
Home consoles
Nintendo Entertainment System
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
EmiNES
1.0.0.6
September 3, 2013
NES
Windows Phone 8 , Symbian
Commercial
[26]
vNESLight
1.2
November 1, 2012
NES
Windows Phone 7
Commercial
N/A
FakeNES[ 10]
0.5.9 beta3
July 20, 2008
NES
Windows , OS X , Linux , DOS
zlib
SourceForge
FCE Ultra GX
3.3.4
January 12, 2013
NES
GameCube , Wii
GPL v2
[27] [28]
FCEUX
2.2.2
September 23, 2013
NES
Windows , OS X , Linux , BSD , Solaris
GPL v2
[29] SourceForge
iNES[ 11]
1.4
January 1, 2011
NES
iOS
?
[30]
higan
094
January 20, 2014
NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Super Game Boy , BS-X Satellaview , Sufami Turbo
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD
GPL v3
[31]
IMBNes[ 12]
2.14
May 31, 2011
NES
PlayStation
GPL v2
Unknown
Jnes
1.1.1
June 22, 2013
NES
Windows
Proprietary
[32]
Mednafen
0.9.37.1
December 20, 2014
NES , SNES , Virtual Boy , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance — Atari Lynx , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , PlayStation , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color , WonderSwan , TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx , PC-FX
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD
GPL v2
SourceForge
nemulator[ 13]
3.4
July 21, 2014
NES
Windows
Proprietary
[33]
Nesoid
2.5
November 29, 2012
NES
Android
GPL v3
SourceForge
NESten[ 14]
0.61 beta1
February 11, 2001
NES
Windows
Proprietary
[34]
Nester
beta4a
February 15, 2009
NES
Windows
GPL v2
SourceForge
NESticle [ 15]
x.xx
August 18, 1998
NES
DOS
Proprietary
[35]
Nestopia
1.40
June 11, 2008
NES
Windows , OS X , Linux
GPL v2
[36] SourceForge
Nestopia UE
1.46.2
October 13, 2014
NES , FDS
Windows , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD
GPL v2
[37]
Nintendulator
0.975 Beta
October 13, 2014
NES
Windows
GPL v2
[38] SourceForge ]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance — SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
Mac OS
BSD
[39] GitHub
puNES
0.90
July 17, 2014
NES , FDS
Windows , Linux
Proprietary
[40]
TI-NESulator
0.40
May 30, 2008
NES
Windows , OS X , Linux
Proprietary
[41]
TuxNES
0.75
April 15, 2001
NES
Linux , FreeBSD , NetBSD
GPL v2
SourceForge
RockNES
5.142
June 2, 2014
NES
Windows
Proprietary
[42]
VirtuaNES
0.97
October 14, 2007
NES
Windows
GPL v2
[43]
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
CHAMPI
1.00
December 12, 1999
SNES
Windows
Proprietary
Unknown
ESNES
0.14a
August 5, 1997
SNES
Windows , MS-DOS
Proprietary
[44]
GrimSNES
?
July 10, 1997
SNES
MS-DOS
Proprietary
Unknown
higan
094
January 20, 2014
NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Super Game Boy , BS-X Satellaview , Sufami Turbo
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD
GPL v3
[45]
no$sns
1.5
July 30, 2013
SNES
Windows
Proprietary
[46]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance — SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
Mac OS
BSD
[47] GitHub
RSRSNES
0.2d
January 7, 1998
SNES
MS-DOS
Proprietary
[48]
SNEeSe
0.853b
August 28, 2006
SNES
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD
Clarified Artistic License
[49] SourceForge
Snes9x
1.53
April 25, 2011
SNES
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , AmigaOS 4 , MorphOS , PlayStation 3 , PSP ("SNES9xTYL"), Android & iOS (Snes9x EX+ ), Windows Phone 8 & Windows RT (Snes8x )
MIT-like license with non-commercial usage clause, LGPL v2.1, GPL v2+
[50]
Snes9x GX
4.3.2
November 9, 2012
SNES
GameCube , Wii
GPL
[51]
SNESGT
0.230 b6
August 30, 2008
SNES , BS-X Satellaview
Windows
Proprietary
[52]
SNesoid
2.2.4
July 16, 2012
SNES
Android
Proprietary
Unknown
Super Sleuth
1.04 p6
August 1, 2008
SNES
Windows
Proprietary
[53]
ZSNES
1.51
January 24, 2007
SNES
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , DOS (IA-32 only)
GPL v2
[54]
MeSNEmu (formerly known as SiOS)
1.4.4.2
October 17, 2014
SNES
iOS
GPL v2
[55]
Virtual Boy
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
Mednafen
0.9.37.1
December 20, 2014
NES , SNES , Virtual Boy , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance — Atari Lynx , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , PlayStation , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color , WonderSwan , TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx , PC-FX
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD
GPL v2
SourceForge
VBjin
SVN61
May 21, 2010
Virtual Boy
Windows
GPL v2
[56]
Nintendo 64
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
1964
1.2 r146
August 17, 2012
Nintendo 64
Windows , Xbox [ 16]
GPL v2
[57]
1964js
0.1.21 r296
October 3, 2013
Nintendo 64
JavaScript
GPL v2
[58] [59]
CEN64
v0.1
November 17, 2013
Nintendo 64
Windows , OS X , Linux
BSD 3-clause
[60] GitHub
Corn
0.3
July 13, 2003
Nintendo 64
Windows
Proprietary
[61]
DaedalusX64
r1878[ 17]
August 24, 2013
Nintendo 64
Windows , PSP
GPL v2
[62] GitHub
Mupen64
0.5.1
August 26, 2005
Nintendo 64
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , QNX , BeOS
GPL v2
[63]
Mupen64Plus
2.0
July 4, 2013
Nintendo 64
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD
GPL v2
[64]
N64js
git-b58d391335
April 7, 2013
Nintendo 64
JavaScript
Expat
[65] [66] GitHub
Nemu64[ 18]
0.8
March 23, 2003
Nintendo 64
Windows
Proprietary
[67]
Project64
2.1.0.1[ 19]
May 1, 2013
Nintendo 64
Windows , Xbox [ 16]
GPL v2
[68] GitHub
sixtyforce
1.0
June 2014 [ 20]
Nintendo 64
OS X
Proprietary
[69]
UltraHLE
1.0.0
January 28, 1999
Nintendo 64
Windows , Xbox [ 16]
Proprietary
[70]
Nintendo GameCube and Wii
Handhelds
Game Boy / Game Boy Color
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
BGB[ 24] [ 25]
1.5
October 18, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Super Game Boy
Windows
?
[76]
Gambatte
r571
September 28, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color
Windows , OS X , Linux , BSD
GPL v2
SourceForge
GBA4iOS
2.1
November 18, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
iOS
?
[77]
Gearboy
2.0
November 10, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color
iOS , Windows , OS X , Linux
GPL v3
GitHub
GNUboy[ 26]
1.0.3
December 8, 2001
Game Boy
AmigaOS , Linux , Cross-platform
GPL
[78]
Goomba
2.3
September 17, 2005 [ 27]
Game Boy , Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS
Proprietary
[79]
Goomba Paletted
2.40
January 31, 2011
Game Boy , Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS
GPL
[80]
higan
094
January 20, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , NES , SNES , Super Game Boy , BS-X Satellaview , Sufami Turbo
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD
GPLv3
[81]
KiGB[ 28]
2.0.5
September 27, 2008
Game Boy , Game Boy Color
Windows , Mac OS
Proprietary
[82]
NO$GMB
2.5
July 23, 2000
Game Boy , Game Boy Color
DOS, Windows
Freeware / shareware (Color)
[83]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , NES , SNES — SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
OS X
BSD
[84] GitHub
Phoinix[ 29]
1.4.2
June 14, 2008
Game Boy
Palm OS
GPL
SourceForge
VisualBoyAdvance
1.7.2 (Windows) / 1.7.4 (OS X) / 1.7.1 (Linux)
May 25, 2004
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
Windows , OS X , Linux , BeOS
GPL
[85]
VisualBoyAdvance 2
SVN246
February 23, 2010
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
Windows , Linux
GPLv3
[86]
Visual Boy Advance GX
2.2.8
July 7, 2012
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
GameCube , Wii
GPL
[87]
VisualBoyAdvance-M
1.8.0 (SVN1229)
March 8, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
Windows , Linux
GPL
[88]
Wzonka-Lad
1.03
January 3, 2004
Game Boy
Amiga
Shareware (historical), GPL (current)
[89]
GBCoid
1.8.6
November 15, 2012
Game Boy Color
Android
GPL [ 30]
SourceForge
Game Boy Advance
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
Boycott Advance
0.4.0
September 27, 2008
Game Boy Advance
Windows , Mac OS , BeOS , Linux , FreeBSD , Java
?
[90]
iDeaS[ 31]
1.0.4.0
February 12, 2012
Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS
Windows , Linux
[91]
IodineGBA
git-5558faabd3
December 10, 2013
Game Boy Advance
JavaScript
GPL v2
[92] GitHub
GBA4iOS
2.1
November 18, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
iOS
?
[93]
higan
094
January 20, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , NES , SNES , Super Game Boy , BS-X Satellaview , Sufami Turbo
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD
GPLv3
[94]
mGBA
0.1.1
January 24, 2015
Game Boy Advance
Windows , Linux , OS X , FreeBSD
MPL v2.0
[95] GitHub
NO$GBA
2.8
February 2, 2015
Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS
DOS, Windows
Freeware
[96]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , NES , SNES — SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
OS X
BSD
[97] GitHub
PocketGBA
060723
July 24, 2006
Game Boy Advance
Pocket PC
?
Site
VisualBoyAdvance
1.7.2 (Windows) / 1.7.4 (OS X) / 1.7.1 (Linux)
May 25, 2004
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
Windows , OS X , Linux , BeOS
GPL
[98]
VisualBoyAdvance 2
SVN246
February 23, 2010
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
Windows , Linux
GPLv3
[99]
Visual Boy Advance GX
2.2.8
July 7, 2012
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
GameCube , Wii
GPL
[100]
VisualBoyAdvance-M
1.8.0 (SVN1229)
March 8, 2014
Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance
Windows , Linux
GPL
[101]
Nintendo DS
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
dasShiny
git-c2ed70905e
August 4, 2013
Nintendo DS
Windows , OS X , Linux
GPL v3
GitHub
DeSmuME
0.9.10
November 28, 2013
Nintendo DS
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , AmigaOS 4
GPL v2
[102] SourceForge
DraStic
2.2.1.2a (Android) / 2.1.6.1p (Pandora)
April 15, 2014
Nintendo DS
Android , Pandora
Proprietary (available on inquiry )
[103] [104] [105] [106]
DuoS
1.0
?
Nintendo DS
Windows
?
[107]
Ensata
1.4e
March 16, 2007
Nintendo DS
Windows
Proprietary (official developers only)
[108]
iDeaS[ 31]
1.0.4.0
February 12, 2012
Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS
Windows , Linux
[109]
nds4droid
46
December 9, 2014
Nintendo DS
Android
GPL v2
[110] SourceForge
nds4ios
0r37-272-gdca7ea0 [ 32]
Nintendo DS
iOS
GPL v2+
[111] GitHub
NO$GBA
2.8
February 2, 2015
Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS
DOS, Windows
Freeware
[112]
Nintendo 3DS
Sega
SG-1000 / SC-3000 / SF-7000
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
CrabEmu
0.2.0
February 27, 2013
SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear — NES , ColecoVision
OS X , Linux , Dreamcast
GPL v2
SourceForge
Genesis Plus GX
1.7.4
June 21, 2013
SG-1000 , SC-3000 , SF-7000 , Sega Mark III , Master System , Sega Genesis , Sega Game Gear , Sega Pico , Sega CD
Nintendo Gamecube , Wii
Freeware [ 33]
[115]
Kega Fusion[ 34]
3.64 (Windows), 3.63i (Mac OS), 3.63x (Linux)
March 7, 2010
SG-1000 , SC-3000 , SF-7000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Pico , Mega Drive , Sega CD , Sega 32X , SVP
Windows , OS X , Linux
Freeware
[116]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis — NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
OS X
BSD
[117] GitHub
Sega Master System / Sega Game Gear
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
CrabEmu
0.2.0
February 27, 2013
SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear — NES , ColecoVision
OS X , Linux , Dreamcast
GPL v2
SourceForge
DSMasterPlus[ 35]
1.3
August 20, 2007
Master System , Sega Game Gear
Nintendo DS
?
[118]
Gearsystem
2.1
November 12, 2014
Master System , Sega Game Gear
iOS , Windows , OS X , Linux
GPL v3
GitHub
Genesis Plus GX
1.7.4
June 21, 2013
SG-1000 , SC-3000 , SF-7000 , Sega Mark III , Master System , Sega Genesis , Sega Game Gear , Sega Pico , Sega CD
Nintendo Gamecube , Wii
Freeware [ 33]
[119]
jsSMS
git-9ed0ac0b09
November 26, 2013
Master System , Sega Game Gear
JavaScript
GPL v3
GitHub
Kega Fusion[ 34]
3.64 (Windows), 3.63i (Mac OS), 3.63x (Linux)
March 7, 2010
SG-1000 , SC-3000 , SF-7000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Pico , Mega Drive , Sega CD , Sega 32X , SVP
Windows , OS X , Linux
Freeware
[120]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis — NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
OS X
BSD
[121] GitHub
Sega Genesis
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
BlastEm
0.2.0
February 13, 2014
Sega Genesis
Linux
GPL v3
[122]
EmiGens Plus
1.0.0.14
September 5, 2013
Sega Genesis , Sega CD , Sega Game Gear
Windows Phone , Symbian
?
Unknown
Exodus
1.0.0
April 30, 2013
Sega Genesis (extensible)[ 36]
Windows
Freeware
[123]
Genecyst
x.xx
August 18, 1998
Sega Genesis
DOS
Freeware
[124]
Genesis Plus[ 37]
1.3.1
January 17, 2010
Sega Genesis
AmigaOS 4 , Windows , Mac OS , Dreamcast , Nintendo GameCube , Wii
Freeware
[125] [126]
Genesis Plus GX
1.7.4
June 21, 2013
SG-1000 , SC-3000 , SF-7000 , Sega Mark III , Master System , Sega Genesis , Sega Game Gear , Sega Pico , Sega CD
Nintendo Gamecube , Wii
Freeware [ 33]
[127] GitHub
Gens
2.14
May 20, 2006
Sega Genesis , Sega CD , Sega 32X
Windows , Linux , Palm
GPL
[128]
Gens/GS
r7
February 23, 2010
Sega Genesis , Sega CD , Sega 32X
Windows , Linux
GPL
[129]
Gens32 Surreal
1.88
October 6, 2010
Sega Genesis , Sega CD , Sega 32X
Windows
Freeware
[130]
Kega Fusion[ 34]
3.64 (Windows), 3.63i (Mac OS), 3.63x (Linux)
March 7, 2010
SG-1000 , SC-3000 , SF-7000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Pico , Mega Drive , Sega CD , Sega 32X , SVP
Windows , OS X , Linux
Freeware
[131]
KGen
V0.34b
June 10, 1998
Sega Genesis
DOS
Freeware
[132]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis — NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
OS X
BSD
[133] GitHub
Sega Saturn
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
DEmul
0.582 WIP
October 23, 2013
Sega Saturn , Dreamcast , Atomiswave , Naomi , Naomi 2 , Hikaru , Model 3
Windows
GPL v2
[134] [135]
GiriGiri[ 38]
0.6a
2003
Sega Saturn
Windows
Freeware , later commercial
[136]
SSF
0.12 beta R4
June 8, 2013
Sega Saturn , ST-V
Windows
Freeware
[137] [138] [139]
Saturn.emu
1.5.12 (1.4.32 WebOS)
May 24, 2013
Sega Saturn
Android , iOS , WebOS , Linux
GPL v2
[140]
Yabause
0.9.14
November 22, 2014
Sega Saturn
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD , Android , Dreamcast , Wii , PlayStation Portable
GPL v2
[141] GitHub
Dreamcast
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
Chankast[ 39]
Alpha 0.25
July 7, 2004
Dreamcast
Windows
Proprietary
[142]
DEmul
0.582 WIP
October 23, 2013
Sega Saturn , Dreamcast , Atomiswave , Naomi , Naomi 2 , Hikaru , Model 3
Windows
GPL v2
[143] [144]
lxdream[ 40]
0.9.1
June 29, 2009
Dreamcast
Linux , OS X
GPL v2
[145]
nullDC
1.0.4 r136
August 21, 2011
Dreamcast , Naomi
Windows
GPL v3
[146]
nullDCe
0.37 Alpha
August 24, 2012
Dreamcast , Naomi
Android
GPL v3 (currently non-compliant)[ 41]
[147]
reicast
git-bdfdfc138a
December 19, 2013
Dreamcast
Linux , Android , iOS
GPL v2
[148] GitHub
Sony
PlayStation
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
bleem!
1.6b
August 16, 2001
PlayStation
Windows
Commercial
Unknown
bleemcast!
1.0 beta
November 1, 2001
PlayStation
Dreamcast
Commercial
Unknown
Connectix Virtual Game Station
1.4.1
October 11, 2000
PlayStation
Windows , Mac OS
Commercial
Unknown
EmiPSX
1.0.5
November 2013
PlayStation
Windows Phone
Commercial
[149]
ePSXe
1.9.25 (Windows/Linux) / 1.9.18 (Android)
January 27, 2015
PlayStation
Windows , Linux , Android
Freeware , Commercial (Android)[ 42]
[150]
FPse
0.11.136
June 23, 2014
PlayStation
Android , Windows Mobile
Commercial[ 43]
[130]
Mednafen
0.9.37.1
December 20, 2014
PlayStation — Atari Lynx , NES , SNES , Virtual Boy , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color , WonderSwan , TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx , PC-FX
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD
GPL v2
SourceForge
NO$PSX
1.9
May 28, 2014
PlayStation
Windows
Freeware
[151]
PCSX
1.5
May 12, 2003
PlayStation
Windows , Mac OS , Linux
GPL
[152]
PCSX-df
1.10
March 29, 2009
PlayStation
Linux
GPL
SourceForge
PCSX-Reloaded
1.9.93
August 26, 2013
PlayStation
Windows , Mac OS , Linux
GPL v2
[153]
Xebra
150215
February 15, 2015
PlayStation
Windows
Freeware
[154] Template:Jp icon
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3
PlayStation Portable
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
JPCSP
r3458
February 7, 2014
PSP
Windows , OS X , Linux
GPL v2
[160] [161]
MFZPSP
r270
September 4, 2008
PSP
Windows
GPL v3
[162]
PCSP
0.5.5
June 9, 2012
PSP
Windows
GPL v3
[163] [164]
PSPE4All
0.2.127
June 2, 2013
PSP
Windows
Proprietary
[165]
Potemkin[ 46]
0.1
May 7, 2007 [ 46]
PSP
Windows
GPL
[166]
PPSSPP
1.0.1
February 26, 2015
PSP
Windows , OS X , Linux , Android , BlackBerry 10 , Symbian , iOS
GPL v2+
[167]
PSPE[ 47]
0.9b
June 4, 2005
PSP
Windows
Proprietary
Unknown
PSP Player
r612
November 24, 2008
PSP
Windows
LGPL
[168] [169]
Sam PSP
r18
February 4, 2009
PSP
Windows
GPL v3
[170]
Soywiz PSP Emu
r555
August 15, 2013
PSP
Windows
GPL [ 48]
[171] GitHub
Yaupspe
git-c9ddde8b5935
April 24, 2011
PSP
Windows , Linux
GPL v2
[172] [173] [dead link ]
Microsoft
Xbox
Xbox 360
Other
These programs emulate multiple systems with cores used from various emulators and/or systems without many alternatives. Many early and obscure systems are covered by one or more of these emulators.
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
BizHawk
1.8.2
September 24, 2014
Atari 2600 , Atari 7800 , NES , SNES , Nintendo 64 , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Super Game Boy , SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis (experimental), Sega Saturn , ColecoVision , TurboGrafx-16 , SuperGrafx
Windows
MIT License
[182] [183]
Bliss[ 50]
2.0.5
May 25, 2006
Mattel Intellivision
Windows , Palm OS
?
[184]
CDi Emu
0.5.3 beta 2
January 9, 2012
Philips CDi
Windows
?
[185]
ColEm[ 51]
2.6
July 31, 2010
ColecoVision
Windows
Open source
[186]
Emulicious
2014-06-26
June 26, 2014
Nintendo Game Boy , Nintendo Game Boy Color , Sega Master System , Sega Game Gear
Windows , Linux , OS X and Java
Freeware - non-commercial
[187]
Little John Palm OS
1.2
2009
NES , SNES , Game Boy /Game Boy Color , Sega Mega Drive/Genesis , Sega Master System , Sega Game Gear , Wonderswan /Wonderswan Color , NeoGeo Pocket /NeoGeo Pocket Color , Atari 2600 , TurboGrafx-16 (Not fully implemented)
Palm OS
GNU General Public License
[188]
Mednafen
0.9.37.1
December 20, 2014
Atari Lynx , NES , SNES , Virtual Boy , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , PlayStation , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color , WonderSwan , TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx , PC-FX
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD
GPL v2
SourceForge
MESS
0.152
December 24, 2013
Various
Cross-platform
Custom
[189]
NeoRAGEx
0.6b
June 24, 1999
Neo Geo AES
Windows
Freeware
[190]
OpenEmu
1.0.4
October 15, 2014
NES , SNES , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color
OS X
BSD
[191] GitHub
Oswan
1.73 (Windows) / 0.8.1 (Mac OS)
January 23, 2007
WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal
Windows , Mac OS
Open source
[192] [193]
RetroArch (Additional Android branch: RetroidNetPlay)
1.0.0.1
February 22, 2015
PlayStation , Nintendo Entertainment System , Super Nintendo , Game Boy /Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , SEGA Genesis /Mega Drive , SEGA CD /Mega CD , SEGA Master System /SEGA Game Gear , Arcade , Virtual Boy , PC Engine /PC Engine CD , Neo Geo Pocket Color , Wonderswan Color /SwanCrystal , possibly other in-development [ 52]
Windows , OS X , Linux , Android ,[ 53] [ 54] [ 55] [ 56] iOS (jailbroken) , Blackberry 10 ,[ 57] Raspberry Pi , OpenPandora , PlayStation 3 , Xbox , Xbox 360 , GameCube , Nintendo Wii
GPL v3,[ 58] individual cores may be licensed differently
[194]
RetroCopy
0.960
May 16, 2011
SG-1000 , SC-3000 , Master System , Game Gear , Mega Drive , NES , Various arcade systems
Windows , Linux
Freeware
[195]
WinUAE
2.8.0
May 5, 2014
Amiga CD32 , Commodore CDTV , other Amiga
Windows , Linux
GPL
[196]
TurboGrafx-16
Name
Current version
Last release
System
Platform
License
Link
BizHawk
1.7.0
June 8, 2014
TurboGrafx-16 , SuperGrafx , Atari 2600 , Atari 7800 , NES , SNES , Nintendo 64 , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Super Game Boy , SG-1000 , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis (experimental), Sega Saturn , ColecoVision
Windows
MIT License
[197] [198]
DeePCE
0.12a beta
August 24, 2000
TurboGrafx-16
Windows 9x
Proprietary
Unknown
DPCE
Initial Release
September 15, 2000
TurboGrafx-16
Windows 9x
Proprietary
Unknown
Hu-Go!
2.12
April 9, 2005
TurboGrafx-16
Windows , MS-DOS , Linux , FreeBSD
GPL v2, BSD 3-clause
[199]
Hu6280
1.50
February 4, 2000
TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD
Windows 9x , MS-DOS
Proprietary
Unknown
Mednafen
0.9.37.1
December 20, 2014
TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx , PC-FX , Atari Lynx , NES , SNES , Virtual Boy , Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Game Boy Advance , Master System , Sega Game Gear , Sega Genesis , PlayStation , Neo Geo Pocket , Neo Geo Pocket Color , WonderSwan
Windows , OS X , Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD
GPL v2
SourceForge
MagicEngine[ 59]
1.1.3
May 26, 2008
TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx
Windows , OS X , MS-DOS
Proprietary
[200]
Ootake
2.75
November 22, 2013
TurboGrafx-16 , SuperGrafx
Windows
GPL v2
[201]
pcejin
svn-r211
April 20, 2013
TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx
Windows
GPL v2
[202]
PicchioEngine
0.0.8
October 9, 2009
TurboGrafx-16
Windows
Expat , LGPL v2.1
[203]
Project PC2E
20050123
January 23, 2005
TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD
Windows
GPL v2
[204]
TG16 EMU
0.01
April 14, 1998
TurboGrafx-16
Windows 9x , MS-DOS , PlayStation
Proprietary
[205]
TGEmu
0.1
February 16, 2001
TurboGrafx-16
Windows 9x , MS-DOS , Mac OS , BeOS
GPL v2
[206]
Turbo Engine
0.32
April 18, 2010
TurboGrafx-16 , TurboGrafx-CD , SuperGrafx
Windows
Proprietary
[207]
VPCE
0.3
November 23, 1997
TurboGrafx-16
Windows 9x , MS-DOS , Mac OS , Linux , BeOS , RISC OS
Proprietary
Unknown
xpce
0.11
December 12, 1998
TurboGrafx-16
Windows 9x
Proprietary
[208]
MagicEngine FX
1.1.1
February 13, 2008
PC-FX
Windows , Mac OS
Proprietary
[209]
See also
Notes
^ Joust Release Information for Macintosh
^ Jeff Vavasour's VIDEO AND COMPUTER GAME Page
^ http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/thumbs.aloft/wos/world/edge/sparcade.htm
^ a b "Info - Dolphin Emulator Pre-Alpha" . anonymous. Retrieved 2013-04-15 .
^ Carless 2004, p. 59
^ a b c Kohler 2006, p. 157
^ Grand et al. 2004, p. 396
^ Kohler 2006, p. 286
^ "Jagulator v2.0.2" . EmuCR. Retrieved 2013-01-15 .
^ Kohler 2006, p. 171
^ Kohler 2006, p. 166
^ PSX Scene, p. 205
^ http://techgage.com/news/nemulator_-_the_best-looking_nes_emulator_ever/
^ Carless, 2004, p. 60
^ Kohler 2006, p. 165
^ a b c "Info - Surreal64 CE" . Surreal64ce.wikidot.com. Retrieved 2013-01-06 .
^ "DaedalusX64.com • View topic - PSP Release thread for DaedalusX64 - Revision: 1861" . Forums.daedalusx64.com. Retrieved 2013-08-03 .
^ "The Emulator Zone Project64" . The Emulator Zone.
^ http://www.pj64-emu.com/downloads/func-startdown/122/
^ http://sixtyforce.com/help/release_notes_100.html
^ "Dolwin 0.10 Released! - Emulation64.com News" . EmuTalk.net. 2005-01-11. Retrieved 2013-01-06 .
^ "Dolwin 0.10 Released!" . Forums.emulator-zone.com. 2005-01-11. Retrieved 2013-01-06 .
^ webmaster@mario.w00ty.com. "Dolwin: Nintendo Gamecube Emulator" . Dolwin.emulation64.com. Retrieved 2013-01-06 . {{cite web }}
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^ Kohler 2006, p. 194
^ Gralla 2007, p. 469
^ Kohler 2006, p. 202
^ http://www.ndsretro.com/gbadown.html
^ Kohler 2006, p. 181
^ Kohler 2006, p. 203
^ A copy of the GNU General Public License, version 2 on the GBCoid source code repository
^ a b Ransom-Wiley, James (May 10, 2005). "DS emulator off the ground, still glitchy" . Joystiq . Retrieved 2011-05-14 .
^ http://nds4ios.angelxwind.net/builds/iOS-fat/Karen_angelXwind/Version-stable.txt
^ a b c "LICENSE.txt -- genplus-gx -- An enhanced port of Genesis Plus" . Genesis Plus GX . Retrieved 7 Oct 2013 .
^ a b c Kohler 2006, p. 178
^ Fletcher, JC (2008-05-22). "Emulating the gaming world on DS" . Joystiq . AOL. Retrieved 2011-08-07 .
^ "What is Exodus?" . Exodus Emulation Platform . Retrieved 1 May 2013 .
^ Fletcher, JC (2008-04-03). "Welcome to the Next Generation of Wii homebrew" . Joystiq . Retrieved 2011-07-11 .
^ Sheffield, Brandon (2006-11-06). "A Tough Nut To Karrak: Sony's New PR Boss Talks PlayStation 3 Plans" . Gamasutra . Retrieved 2011-07-12 .
^ Stolarz 2005, p.318
^ Goodwin, Steven. "Appliance Hacking". Smart Home Automation with Linux . Apress. p. 53.
^ Although nullDCe is listed as GPLv3 on its Google Code project page, the source, as well as the binaries, are nowhere to be found.
^ "ePSXe for Android" . Google Play. Retrieved 2013-01-06 .
^ "FPse for android - Android Apps on Google Play" . Google Play. Retrieved 2013-09-09 .
^ a b Stolarz 2005, p.319
^ https://github.com/DHrpcs3/rpcs3/pull/855
^ a b Yoon, Andrew (May 6, 2007). "Experimental emulator brings PSP games to Windows" . Joystiq . Retrieved 2011-07-05 .
^ Prochnow, Dave (2005). PSP Hacks, Mods, and Expansions . McGraw-Hill. p. 124.
^ "Soywiz's PSP Emulator: License" . Pspemu.soywiz.com. Retrieved 2013-01-06 .
^ Grand et al. 2004, p. 145
^ Kohler 2006, p. 148
^ Kohler 2006, p. 151
^ https://github.com/libretro
^ "30 best Android apps this week" . www.guardian.co.uk. February 1, 2013.
^ "RetroArch: Android Apps on Google Play" . play.google.com. May 8, 2013.
^ "Getting to grips with Android emulator app RetroArch - One emulator to rule them all - but is it any good?" . pocketgamer.com. February 6, 2013.
^ "RetroArch Emulates Nearly Every Classic Gaming Console on Android" . lifehacker.com. March 6, 2013.
^ "How to play your favorite old school console games on your BlackBerry 10 phone or BlackBerry PlayBook" . crackberry.com. June 3, 2013.
^ https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/master/COPYING
^ Kohler 2006, p. 179
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Kohler, Chris (2006). Retro Gaming Hacks . O'Reilly Media.
Gralla, Preston (2007). "Emulate The Game Boy On Your PC". Big Book of Windows Hacks . O'Reilly Media.
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Game Console Hacking . Syngress. 2004.